walterburns

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by walterburns 4mo ago
My first thought was, "language". The Broca's area is on the left side of the brain, which is the center of control for logic, language and the right hand. It makes sense to me that an evolutionary feedback loop would develop
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by walterburns 6mo ago
I don't understand why the author bought an iPhone. That's the deal - you do things Apple's way in exchange for not having to figure out how you'll do them. For most people this is a massive convenience, and that's
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by walterburns 9mo ago
On Writing Well, by William Zinsser. Hilarious, enlightening, affirming of everyone's need and ability to write well.
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by walterburns 10mo ago
"But we'd like to give a type to this function. In most languages (Haskell, Typescript, C++, Rust, C#, etc.) there is no way to do that.[2] " Can't you do this with a GADT? With a GADT, the type of the output can be spec
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by walterburns 2y ago
Oh boy.
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Functional Programming Strategies (In Scala with Cats)(scalawithcats.com)
3 points by walterburns 2y ago|1 comments
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by walterburns 2y ago
The first five chapters are unrelated to using the Cats library, and are an outstanding, illuminating introduction to how to think about FP in any language.
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by walterburns 2y ago
Li Haoyi! Thank you for developing your scala ecosystem and Hands On Scala. I just started using Scala again after a few years' break, using Mill, thanks to your recent blog post on the last 12 years. I forgot how easy Scala can be if
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by walterburns 2y ago
I wish the world hadn't consolidated around Kubernetes. Rancher was fantastic. Did what 95% of us need, and dead simple to add and manage services.
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by walterburns 2y ago
If I had a dime for every person that's asked for this.
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by walterburns 2y ago
I found the article compelling and illuminating, but I wish someone had proofread it for the grammar. Half a dozen times I had to reread a sentence and concluded it wasn't correct English syntax.
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by walterburns 2y ago
The invention of the steel core made the stone facade unnecessary to support the building, so most new buildings are covered in glass instead of stone. That's related to less ornamentation, but to me that's the big distinction bet
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by walterburns 2y ago
Ay, that's the spirit, lad. To borrow a phrase from the book Switch, "true but useless". And only technically true. Of course there are no actual second chances. Time only moves forward. But the implication - and it's on
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by walterburns 3y ago
Becoming a Manager by Linda Hill. Not a how-to, but it gives you a preview of the challenge and the blind spots you might have as you become a manager. Another that I haven't read but has been recommended to me is The Manager's Pa
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Conflicting Reports Thicken Nord Stream Bombing Plot(theintercept.com)
4 points by walterburns 4y ago|0 comments
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by walterburns 4y ago
I'm on a Framework running Manjaro and i3. Love it. Very lightweight, love the keyboard, very snappy.
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by walterburns 4y ago
This is the CIA's published version of this document: https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/document/cia-rdp80-00809a000...
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by walterburns 4y ago
DRY is about readability. If DRY makes the system more readable, do it. If not, don't.
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by walterburns 4y ago
DRY is about readability. If it makes the system more readable, DRY. If not, don't.